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C'.STEPHENS.. v NEGKTIE AND COLLAR 0LASP.

Patented June 10, 1884.

WITNESSES: I

INVENTOR away ATTORNEY N, PETtRs. Pnumumn n her. Wilmington D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLINTON STEPHENS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

NECKTIE AND COLLAR CLASP.

SaPIElCIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,028, dated June 10, 1884.

Application filed April 10, 1884.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CLINTON STEPHENS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Collar-Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and effective device, which,

attached to the neckband of a shirt, may be applied to clasp the collar, or collar and cravat or necktie, in such ,manner as to prevent the upward displacement of said parts with reference to the neck band aforesaid.

The invention comprises a novel combination of parts whereby the aforesaid objects are secured.

Figure l is an edge view, Fig. 2 a side view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal sectional view, of a device constructed according to my said invention.

A is a plate, provided at one side with studs or spurs a, and at the opposite side with a button, b, connected with said plate by the neck a. A claw-plate, B, is hinged or pivoted at one end to the adjacent extremity of the plate A, as indicated at b.. The outer or free end of this claw-plate B is provided with spurs or teeth a, and at the opposite end with the short arm or projection d. Bearing against this arm on projection (1 is the free end of a spring, 0. The said spring is attached to the plate A byany suitable means. I

In applying the apparatus to use the button b is thrust, as represented in Fig. 3, through a button-hole suitably formed in the neckband of the shirt, which in Fig. 3 is represented at D. This done, the collar E is placed, in the usual position, around the neckband, and the cravat or necktie F in the usual position around the collar E, the claw-plate B being meanwhile sprung outward in the position indicated in Fig. 1. The collar and cravat or necktie being thus placed in position, the claw-plate B is brought parallel with the plate A, so that its teeth 0 indent themselves into the outer surface of the cravat or necktie and collar, one or both, while the spurs a of the plate A in like manner project into the inner (No model.)

side of the collar, and thereby prevent the lifting or rising thereof, the plate B being forced 5o inward by the action of the spring 0 upon the arm d of the said plate.

In practice it is designed that two of the devices will be used-one at each side of the neckband and these may be applied either band, there may be substituted for said but ton b any other means for fastening the device in place. Thus, for example, what is commonly known as a safety-pin may be soldered to the back of the plate A in such manner that the pin may be thrust through the neckband to attach the device in place, thereby enabling the latter to operate in the same manner as when constructed with the button I), such safety-pin, for example, being a mechanical equivalent for the button. It is of course to be understood that the spurs a may be one or more in number, and in like manner that the teeth 0 may be one or more, as preferred.

I do not claim the device included in the shirt-collar fastener shown and described in the patent of Lambert dated May 6, 1879, in asmuch as the construction and arrangement of parts included in said devices differ materially from the special combination and arrangement of parts comprised in my invention; but 7 What I claim as my invention is The collarclasp composed of the stiff or rigid plate A, having spurs or studs a, the claw-plate B, pivoted to the extremity of the 8 5 said plate A, and the button 6, having a shank,

a, and a spring, 0, the said button-shank and spring being attached to that side of the plate A opposite to that at which is placed the claw-plate B, the parts being arranged in relation with each other as described, and for the purpose specified.

CLINTON STEPHENS.

Vitnesses:

THOS. PARISH SHERMAN, A. B. OARRING'ION. 

